Quotes About Volleyball

People think of beach volleyball as something you just play and have fun. They don't realize there's a lot of discipline involved in playing at this level.

I certainly think it's ironic that beach volleyball was first played in the 1930s in Santa Monica and tournaments of a high caliber have been happening in this country since the 1940s, and the FIVB, for many years, has ignored beach volleyball.

I have a hunger to grow and to learn, so coaching is a natural extension of a lifelong love of the game of volleyball.

In many parts of this country, there is still a stigma about volleyball, that it is a sissy game, the one to go out for if you can't win a letter in anything else. People don't realize what a difference there is between the picnic game and the top level.

Our big hope is to get to the Olympics and win the first beach volleyball gold medal - if we can make it.

The United States has a superb cadre of coaches, some of the best minds of volleyball ever, and I aspire to join that group.

Everyone in my family enjoys sports and I was naturally athletic as a child. I have been cycling since I can remember, had previously represented by school in football and later my college at national level volleyball.

In high school, I think I served almost an entire match by myself.

Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.

I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

Great passing and setting - I admire that more than the super big guys pounding the ball.

I take a tremendous amount of punishment and abuse every weekend because every team serves at me. So I have to carry the offensive load. I'm hitting the ball all the time.

All I know is Coach Cook said I'd be a pretty good sand player because I have all the shots.

But I think it's important admitting to my teammates, Hey, I'm really struggling right now, and can you help me out?' Or, This serve is really killing me in the seam, can you take a step and take it for me so I can go and hit and have a better shot next time?'

When asked about which team is the toughest team in the league, responded with an answer that all volleyball players must comprehend. He said simply that it was, 'The team you are playing.'

Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.